100 Tips for Hearthstone Battlegrounds by CarryPotter

Battlegrounds Basic Tips

• The player with the most minions will start attacking in battle. If both have the same amount, it's random.
• Cleave minions are those who also damage the minions next to whomever they attack.
• When the turn starts, scout your next opponent to optimize what you are buying.
• If your opponent is playing Mechs, it could help to place a small minion up front, as a bumper, to take down a possible Divine Shield.
• If possible, try to have a Taunt minion and place it on the side to play around opposing minions with cleave.
• Whenever you have a big Taunt minion, try to place a secondary smaller Taunt to protect it from Leeroys and Venomous minions.
• Heroes that grant stats are usually the easier ones to learn how to play.
• Time is a resource. Avoid finishing your turn in 10 seconds and always roping.
• Economy minions will help you curve out without floating any Gold in the first Turns.
• Freezing is equal to losing 1 Gold. Only Freeze for the 2-3 minions you are more interested in the game.
• When selling a Golden Sellemental you get two Water Droplets. So, with 3 Sellementals and 1 Water Droplet, you get two Triples.

• In Monstrous Macaw combos you need to be careful not to add Deathrattles that could jeopardize your combo.

Intermediate Battlegrounds Tips 

• Don't decide your game plan until Turn 6-7 when you find a win condition.
• The best way to get a win condition is by tripling to discover a Tavern 5 minion on Turn 6, and again on Turn 8 to discover a Tavern 6 minion.
• Correct placement can make you win many combats.
• Try to Roll as little as possible in the first 6 Turns.
• At high Ratings, the best Heroes are usually those who give you an economic advantage. 
• There are 3 economy minions in Tier 1: Sellemental, Shell Collector and Southsea Busker.

• The same Hero can over or under-perform depending on the Minion types available in the game. Value synergies.
• Mantid Queen and Leeroy the Reckless are great minions to close games, but not so good when discovering them with your early triples.
• With Brann Bronzebeard any minion that Discovers another one as a Battlecry is free.
• Not every minion is worth tripling.
• If you are below 7 Health, always buy Leeching Felhound, it's 1 free Gold.

Composition Tips

• The best tempo comps are Beasts, Undeads and Mechs.
• Scam comps try to win by killing minions in 1vs1 combat regardless of their stats.
• APM (actions per minute) compositions are those in which your speed is the determining factor.
• The main APM minion types are Elementals and Pirates.
• Scam or venomous compositions are bad against compositions that summon several minions such as Undead, Mechs or Beasts.
• Summon comps usually fall short versus stat-based comps.
• Stats-based minion-types like Pirates or Elementals, are worse in games with Murlocs.
• Menagerie comps don't need 5 different minion types. Having 3 or 4 and adding scam units is the best.
• If you get Nomi, Kitchen Nightmare from an early triple and you don't want to take risks, you can stay on Tavern 4. That comp can win from there.

Battlegrounds Heroes-specifc Tips

• Dinotamer Brann is very good in games with many minions with Battlecries on Tavern 1 and underperforms in games with Mechs, Beasts or Undeads.
• When playing Millhouse, always buy Refreshing Anomaly.
• Heroes such as Greybough, Deathwing, C'Thun or Dancin' Deryl aren't good for first places, but playing tempo-oriented games with them will secure an easy Top 4 placement.
• With Mr. Bigglesworth your goal is to survive. Risk as little as possible and play tempo comps.
• When playing A. F. Kay, freezing an economy minion allows you to perform two actions on Turn 3 (5 Gold).
• With Trade Prince Gallywix, economy minions such as Sellemental will cost you 3 Gold but give you back 4 Gold the next turn.
• The best games for economy Heroes (Trade Prince Gallywix or Millhouse Manastorm) are those with Pirates and Elementals.
• You should only use Captain Eudora's Hero Power five times until your first Discover. It's not worth spending more Gold on it after that.
• You can only get one Ice Block per game from Akazamzarak's Hero Power.

Battlegrounds Curve Tips

• If on Turn 3 after playing the Classic Curve your shop isn't good, it's better to Level-up again than to buy bad minions. That's the 3 on 3 Curve.
• In this Quest meta, the Classic Curve is the best for most Heroes.
• The Heroes with a 1 Gold Hero Power that has value on its own, usually play the Rafaam curve.
• The Rafaam curve consists of upgrading the Tavern for the first time on Turn 4 (6 Gold), buying a minion and using the Hero Power. Then, also leveling up the follow turns with a Hero Power on top.
• Some Heroes that play the Rafaam curve are Maiev Shadowsong, Captain Eudora and, obviously, Arch-Villain Rafaam.
• In Battlegrounds jargon, if your opponent throws the Thumbs Up emote at you, they are probably suggesting that you both level up your Tavern this turn.

Interactions and fine-tunning

• You can't die outside of combat if you have a Soul Rewinder on board.
• Spellcrafts don't burn. If you have a full hand, you will get them whenever you make hand space.
• Vol'jin and Mutanus the Devourer can turn temporary stats buffs into permanent with their Hero Power.

• If you are playing Vol'jin and you have a minion with many Blood Gems you can swap those stats with another minion and then also steal those Blood Gems with Necrolyte for a double-dip.
• The Boogie Monster's text increases from 1 to 6 and stays on 6 permanently. However, if you make it Golden, it will reset to 1.
• Now Kalecgos activates twice with Brann and also synergies with Battlecry activations from Hero Powers such as Shudderwok.
• Upbeat Upstart can duplicate its health every 2 Turns and become a huge Taunt.
• The Mama Bear effect triggers before the Banana Slamma one.
• A Golden Banana Slamma will triple the stats of summoned minions. Two regular Banana Slammas will quadruple the stats of summoned minions.
• Tunnel Blaster is one of the best tech minions in the game. Consider buying it when entering the late game.
• Tunnel Blaster is especially good against Divine Shield comps (Mechs, Scam, George the Fallen, etc.)

Battlegrounds facts and mechanics

• Hearthstone launched Battlegrounds on 11/1/2019.
• You can hold up to 10 cards in hand. Be careful not to burn cards with multiple Discovers, Blood Gems or similar interactions.
• Battlegrounds has three expansions per year, each lasting 4 months with shakeups in between.
• Dual-type minions are available in games in which at least one of their types is present.
• There's a limited amount of copies of each minion.
• There are 15 copies of Tavern 1, 2 and 3 minions; 11 of Tavern 4 minions; 9 of Tavern 5 minions; and 7 of Tavern 6 minions.
• There are ways to get additional minion copies, for example, Tess Greymane's Hero Power.
• You can now Magnetize Mechs even with a full board.
• The Poisonous Keyword has been reworked. Now it's called Venomous, and the effect disappears after the minion deals damage.
• A Venomous minion can lose the effect after damaging another minion and then regain Venomous thanks to Operatic Belcher.

• Ghosts only face surviving players in the last 3 places.
• Once you face a ghost you will need to play at least 2 battles with surviving players before facing it again.
• If you leave fewer minions than the ones the shop should have at that Tavern Tier it will be considered a Tavern Refresh even if you had frozen the shop.
• The max Gold you can have in Battlegrounds is 100.
• If you reach a 6,000 Rating, you are in the top 50% of Battlegrounds players.
• Only 1% of players are above a 10,000 Rating.
• If you queue alongside a friend you will face a harder lobby and will gain less Rating if you win (and lose more if you don't).
• You can't queue with friends if you are above 10,000 Rating.

Amalgam

• Some fun to play Heroes: Patches the Pirate, Trade Prince Gallywix, Millhouse Manastorm, Murloc Holmes, Sire Denathrius, Tickatus or Master Nguyen.
• Some boring Heroes: Patchwerk,Vanndar Stormpike, Drek'Thar, The Lich King, Sylvanas Windrunner, Tamsin Roame or Cariel Roame.
• You can check your Battlegrounds stats, including first places, Top 4s and games played with any Hero on the Achievement Menu, in Game Modes, Battlegrounds.
• To select from 4 Heroes you need to purchase the Battlegrounds Tavern pass that lasts for 1 Season (approx. 4 months) and costs $15.
• Since 2022 Battlegrounds has an official esports circuit called Lobby Legends, with a series of $50,000 tournaments.
• You can play Battlegrounds on any server, but the further they are the more lag you will suffer.
• Until now Battlegrounds has seen three different special events: Quests, Buddies and Darkmoon Prizes.

Top Secret Battlegrounds Tips

• If you play a cleave minion, your opponent's minions placed at the sides get "invisible Taunt."
• If the odds of you dying are 5% or less, just assume you are dead.
• There's no need to taunt an Avenge Minion, they low-key always have it.